Note: I haven’t read the book, I read the summary
Historical fiction is when the book is based on historic occurrences though the characters and/or their actions are made-up. “The Contest” is about the Romans and the Roman emperor, Nero. Nero was, in fact, a real person, and the majority is based on actual facts, making it a work of historical fiction.
In the 1994 mid-term congressional election campaign, most Republican candidates for the House of Representatives signed a "Contract with America" in which they
<span>promised to encourage conservative values such as individualism and self-reliance.</span>
It was one of the first student sit-ins. sit-ins: where a group of people occupy a place as a protest.